Ata Moravec

Vlastimil "Ata" Moravec (17 March 1921-24 October 1942) was a Czechoslovakian man who was tortured by the Gestapo into giving up the location of the Operation Anthropoid assassins in 1942.

Biography
Vlastimil Moravec was born in Cercany, Czechoslovakia on 17 March 1921, the son of Alois and Marie Moravcova. He became a violinist as a youth, and he lived with his family in a small Prague apartment during Nazi Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia. In 1942, his family shelterered parachutists Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis in their apartment as they planned out Operation Anthropoid, and the Gestapo was led to their house by the traitor Karel Curda after the operation's success. The Gestapo arrested Moravec and his father, and his mother killed herself with cyanide rather than be interrogated. Ata Moravec was subjected to harsh torture, and he was shown his mother's severed head in a bucket before giving up the hideout of the parachutists, the Cyril and Methodius Church. On 24 October 1942, Ata and his father were executed by firing squad at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.